Boost Run Inc. (Nasdaq: BRUN) said in an 8-K filed on 6 October 2026 that on 30 September its subsidiary Boost Run LLC signed a Service Agreement with Cohere Inc to provide Cohere with “access to dedicated GPU cloud computing infrastructure and related services.” The 8-K says Cohere has committed to pay Boost Run approximately $525.6 million over the term, a portion of it as a prepayment.
A press release issued the same day describes a five-year AI cloud services agreement with “a leading sovereign AI company” and says Boost Run will deliver capacity powered by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 GPUs. The 8-K gives neither the size of the prepayment nor the number of racks or GPUs.
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The key insight: The 8-K and Exhibit 10.1 tie Cohere’s commitment to acceptance: the exhibit says no monthly fees are invoiced for a rack before it is accepted, and the 8-K says that if a specified minimum has not been accepted by July 15, 2027, Cohere may terminate and receive a refund of all amounts prepaid, which Boost Run Inc. has guaranteed up to the unapplied prepayment. This publication sets the statements next to each other as the documents give them; the documents give no prepayment amount.
Update (26 Oct): Boost Run says it has funded the build-out with project debt. Boost Run said on 26 October that it has closed more than $600 million of non-dilutive project financing so far this year, raised against specific multi-year customer agreements and supported by customer prepayments and operating cash flow (Boost Run release). It named no lenders, rates or maturities.
Chief executive Andrew Karos said: “Each project’s financing is structured to be repaid well before its contract ends” and “Customer payments exceed our debt payments every month.” The release again describes the five-year, $525.6 million agreement signed in September, without naming the customer, and says Boost Run has delivered the first phase of a multi-phase NVIDIA B300 project to an unnamed “leading AI research and product company” under agreements signed in May 2026.
It expects deployed colocation capacity to reach about 40 MW by the end of 2026. On the same day, Reuters reported that Nebius and CoreWeave bonds hit record lows (see our neocloud stocks and bonds piece).
The 8-K says the agreement, together with the order form under it, is a Service Agreement between Boost Run LLC and Cohere Inc. It says “the term for each rack of infrastructure delivered under the Agreement is approximately five years, commencing upon Cohere’s acceptance of that rack.”
Acceptance of the initial infrastructure, the 8-K says, “is currently expected to begin in the second quarter of 2027.” The agreement stays in place until all orders under it expire or end, and it does not renew automatically.
Cohere’s commitment is stated with conditions. The 8-K says it is “subject to the satisfaction of delivery and acceptance requirements and any termination described below.” Either party may end the agreement for cause, the 8-K says, and Cohere “may also terminate in certain other circumstances specified in the Agreement.”
What Boost Run’s 8-K of 6 October 2026 and Exhibit 10.1 tie to acceptance of the infrastructure, in order. The dates and terms are the filing’s, as it gives them.
Fees Start Only After a Rack Is Accepted
Exhibit 10.1 is the Service Agreement itself, filed with portions omitted. It says amounts prepaid “will be credited toward the Fees payable under this Agreement.” Boost Run invoices committed-capacity fees monthly in advance, but “monthly Fees for any rack shall not be invoiced until that rack has been accepted or deemed accepted.”
The exhibit also says the prepayment installments in the order “shall become due in respect of each rack in proportion to the GPUs comprised in that rack relative to the total GPUs under the Order,” and that amounts due at signing are payable at signing.
Once a rack is accepted, the exhibit says Cohere “shall remain obligated to pay all Fees for the full duration of the Term in respect of each accepted or deemed accepted rack, regardless of actual usage.” It calls Cohere’s obligation to pay undisputed fees “absolute and unconditional,” subject to service credits and the refunds the agreement provides.
Acceptance runs on a clock. Boost Run sends a notice that a group of racks is ready for testing, with a validation report generated by NVIDIA and/or its NVIS installation and validation team. Cohere then has seven business days to confirm the racks meet the acceptance criteria.
The exhibit says a rack is deemed accepted if Cohere sends neither an acceptance nor a non-acceptance notice in that period, or if it “places any production workload on the applicable rack.” After a valid non-acceptance notice, Boost Run gets two remediation periods of 20 business days each, extended for delays attributable to Cohere or to hardware, components or firmware from NVIDIA, an OEM or another supplier.
The 15 July 2027 Date and the Refund
The 8-K says: “if a specified minimum amount of infrastructure has not been accepted by July 15, 2027, Cohere may terminate the Agreement and receive a refund of all amounts prepaid.” If the minimum has been accepted, Cohere may terminate the order for infrastructure not accepted by that date and receive a refund of the related prepaid amounts.
Exhibit 10.1 calls 15 July 2027 the “Outside Date,” the final date by which Cohere “requires all racks under the Order to be accepted or deemed accepted,” notwithstanding any expected delivery date, revised schedule or force majeure event. It describes each delivery date in the order as an expected date, and says Boost Run will use “commercially reasonable efforts” to meet it.
On a full termination the exhibit says Boost Run refunds all amounts prepaid, “promptly following the effective date of termination.” On a partial termination it refunds the prepayment attributable to the terminated racks, calculated pro rata by GPUs, “in three (3) equal monthly instalments commencing thirty (30) days after the effective date of termination.”
The exhibit calls this Cohere’s “sole and exclusive remedy for a failure to achieve acceptance by the Outside Date.” Clause 10.6(d), the termination right that clause 10.6(e) refers to, appears in the filed exhibit only as “[*],” the filing’s marker for omitted text, and the filed text does not define the “Termination Minimum.”
The 8-K adds: “The Company has guaranteed Boost Run’s obligation to pay any refund of prepaid amounts under the Agreement, up to the amount of the prepayment received by Boost Run and not applied against fees.” Here the 8-K’s “Company” is Boost Run Inc., the parent.
What the Exhibit Says About Financing
Exhibit 10.1 says: “Customer acknowledges that Boost Run finances the equipment, facilities and working capital required to deliver the Services in part against this Agreement and the Orders.” Within ten business days of a request, Cohere must confirm to Boost Run and any financing party, to its knowledge, that the agreement is in force, that it can pay the fees and that neither side is in default.
The exhibit refers to Boost Run assigning its right to receive fees to a financing party under a clause in Exhibit G, which is not in the filed text, and says Cohere’s obligation to pay undisputed fees survives an assignment and is enforceable by any financing party. It also says the services “do not constitute a lease of, bailment of, or the grant of any interest in, any Equipment,” and that title to equipment stays with Boost Run, its affiliates, lessors, vendors or financing parties.
Neither the 8-K nor the filed text of the exhibit names a financing party or gives an amount. The press release refers separately to Boost Run’s “non-dilutive financing structure” without further detail.
How the Press Release Describes It
The press release, dated 6 October 2026, says Boost Run “has signed a five-year AI cloud services agreement with a leading sovereign AI company” with a total contract value of $525.6 million, “along with acceptance of the initial infrastructure expected to begin in early Q2 2027.” It says Boost Run will deliver capacity powered by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 GPUs, along with network storage and CPU node services.
The 8-K, filed the same day, names the counterparty as Cohere Inc and gives the second quarter of 2027 for the start of acceptance, where the release says early Q2 2027. The press release does not name the customer and does not mention this contract’s prepayment, the 15 July 2027 date or the refund and guarantee terms; its only reference to upfront payments is in its definition of total contract value. Both documents give $525.6 million and a term of about five years.
Exhibit 10.1 says Boost Run may identify the customer “to the extent reasonably required by… the rules of any securities exchange.” It also says the parties will agree an initial joint announcement within 30 days of acceptance of the minimum. This piece draws no conclusion about why the release does not name the customer.
The press release adds that the contract takes Boost Run’s total contract value to “over $2.6 billion,” a figure it says represents “the total revenue customers have committed to pay over the life of all agreements, where the Company’s signed contracts have upfront payments.” The 8-K gives no such total.
The Structural Read
The press release and the 8-K lead with different things. The press release leads with a five-year agreement, a total contract value of $525.6 million and acceptance expected to begin in early Q2 2027. The 8-K adds that the commitment is “subject to the satisfaction of delivery and acceptance requirements” and that a portion of it is a prepayment.
Exhibit 10.1 sets out the order of events for each rack. Boost Run gives notice that the rack is ready for testing, with an NVIDIA-generated validation report, and Cohere has seven business days to respond. Fees accrue from acceptance or deemed acceptance. If acceptance comes late, the exhibit says the term is extended day for day, “so that a delay in delivery or acceptance defers, and does not shorten, the contracted number of months of Service for that rack.”
The exhibit limits the remedy for a missed acceptance date. It calls the refund Cohere’s “sole and exclusive remedy for a failure to achieve acceptance by the Outside Date.” It also says that until a refund is paid, Cohere keeps paying fees for racks already accepted and may not withhold or set off any amount against them. The 8-K describes neither point.
Andrew Karos, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Boost Run, in the press release
“This agreement marks an important step in efficiently deploying our financing into contracted revenue.”
Three Implications
THE MONEY IS TIED TO ACCEPTANCE The exhibit says no monthly fees are due on a rack before it is accepted, and that prepayment installments become due rack by rack in proportion to the GPUs in each rack. It gives no installment amounts.
THE REFUND HAS A GUARANTOR The 8-K says Boost Run Inc. has guaranteed Boost Run LLC’s obligation to pay any refund of prepaid amounts, up to the prepayment received and not applied against fees. The size of the prepayment is not given.
THE OPEN ITEMS ARE IN THE OMITTED TEXT The order form, the size of the specified minimum, the number of racks and GPUs and the identity of any financing party are not in the filed text. The 8-K says omitted portions will be furnished to the SEC on request.
What Is Not Established
Neither the 8-K nor the filed text of Exhibit 10.1 gives the size of the prepayment or the number of racks, GPUs or megawatts. They give no fee schedule, no monthly fee and no size for the specified minimum. The only delivery date is the second quarter of 2027 for the start of acceptance. The order form and the exhibits to the agreement are not in the filed text, and the 8-K says omitted portions will be furnished to the SEC on request.
The documents do not identify who finances Boost Run’s equipment or on what terms. They give no revenue, EBITDA or other financial figure for Boost Run beyond the contract and total-contract-value figures above.
We did not contact Boost Run, Cohere or NVIDIA. This piece draws no conclusion about the agreement, the counterparty or the company, and it makes no comparison with any other company. Readers can see our earlier reports on Quanome’s 60-month capacity order and on Axe Compute’s purchase of a Georgia cluster from Duos, which this piece does not compare with this one.
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Boost Run Inc. said in an 8-K filed on 6 October 2026 that Boost Run LLC signed a Service Agreement with Cohere Inc on 30 September, under which Cohere has committed to pay approximately $525.6 million over the term, a portion as a prepayment. The term for each rack is approximately five years from acceptance, and acceptance of the initial infrastructure is currently expected to begin in the second quarter of 2027.
If a specified minimum has not been accepted by 15 July 2027, the 8-K says Cohere may terminate and receive a refund of all prepaid amounts, which Boost Run Inc. guarantees up to the unapplied prepayment. The 8-K gives no prepayment amount or rack count.
A note on sourcing. This piece rests on Boost Run Inc.’s 8-K filed 6 October 2026 and Exhibit 10.1, the Service Agreement as filed with portions omitted, both read in full, and on the company’s press release of the same day. We read the press release through the Financial Times markets copy of the Business Wire text, because Business Wire’s own page was not available to us.
We did not read the order form or the agreement’s other exhibits, which are not in the filing, and we haven’t checked the company’s statements independently. We did not contact Boost Run, Cohere or NVIDIA. Nothing here is a forecast, and nothing here is financial or investment advice.
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
